Process of forming fluted soap sheets and articles resulting therefrom.



, MTENTE APR. 9, 1907. E. A. 1000001101 0 A. HUBER.

S AND ARTICLES RESULTING PROCESS OF FORMING FLUTED SOAP SHEET THEREFRO M.

APPLICATION FILED APB..27, 1906.

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RNE'sTlA. HOUCHIN-AND AN'rHoNYf YPROCEISS or FORMING FtUTED SOAP sums AND ARTICLESRESULTING} THEREFROM.

"hereby declare thefollowing to be a. full,

I the soap film from the soa chilling cylinder 1 article resultingfrom the practice of such into'eflect the present invention.

carried out by the use of a large variety of Processes of Forming Fluted Soap Sheets and v such. as will enable others skilled inthe art to' which. it appertains to make and use the article resultingfrom the practice of suo airwithin thedrying a paratus.

.*vide a sheet of soap so fluted that in passing through the drying apparatus only the ridges we'yer-surface and whereby a circulation of in fluted sheets; Fig. 2 is a view in side elefluting the said sheetsj Fig. 3 is a transverse -'secti,onal view through the knife shown at States, residing at Brooklyn, in -the county of certain new and useful Improvements in Articles Resulting Therefrom; andwe do clear-,an'd exact description of the invention,

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This invention relates to the process of forming soap films into fluted sheets and the process.

The object of the invention is to remove in fluted strips, whereby t c said strips may be subjected to the influence of the drying- A further object of t e inventionis to proof the corrugations Wlll bear upon the conair is permittedunder and beneath the corrugated surface. With these and other objects this invention consists in the several steps of the roc ess, hereinafter described, together wit the process.

In the drawings forming. a part of this application is shown one of a large number of devices which may be employed in carrying In the saiddrawings, in Figure 1 is shown in end elevation a conventional soap-chilling cylinder and a scraper in contact with the peripheral-surface of said cylinder of a form to remove the soapfilm from the said cylinder vation of-a scraper shown in Fig. 1 as in con tactwith r the cylinder and embodying one formof scraper which may be employed for Fig. 2, taken on line 3 3 of said figure. Fig. 4 isa view in end elevation of the knife shown at Fig. 2. Fig; 5 is a view in perspective of the sheetof soap resulting from the practice of this rocess. I

Whi e the process herein described may be Specification of Letters Patent.

HUBER, or BaooK YN, NEW, YORK.

rac mes April 9, 1907;

Application filedAprilZ'Z, 190e, SerialNo 614,096. f I i mechanical apparatus, the device shown in the drawings is found to be a desirable device for the purpose, wherein the several characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In carrying into effect'the process forming.

the subject matter of this invention by means I of the apparatus shown in the drawings the c linder 10, mounted to rotate, as upon th'e s aft 11, and operated in any. approved man- .ner, as by the train of gears 12, 13, '14, and

15, is arranged to take up a film of liquid soap in any approved manner, as by rotating in a tank of such material or by means of the hopper 16, as shown, The cylinder 10 as it roltates and carries with it a film of soapchilled in the usuala'n'd .approved manner comes in contact with the scraper 17, secured in any approved manner, as-by the guides 18, set-- screw 19, disposed at any approved angle to the periphery of the cylinder, preferably approximately forty-five degrees from a tangent to the surface.

In the a paratus shown the scraper 17 is formed wit a beveled edge, as 20, struck on a curve conforming to the periphery of the cylinder in contact with which it is arranged to operate, as shown in Fig. 1. The edge formed by the bevel 20 is indented in any a rovecl manner, as at 21, as by filing or milling, so that points 22 are formed with reversely-inclined chisel edges 23 in contact with the cylinder from the points 22 to the angle of the V sha ed indentation. It is sometimes ound desirable to produc narrow sheets of the fluted soap material, for which urpose the scraper is provided with means or splitting the soap film, and are here shown as the edges 25. j

The sheet of soap formed by the practice of this processcomprises longitudinally-disposed corrugations 26, which in the use of the apparatus shown are formed byfthe points 22 first raisin the-soap film at the point of contact with t e surface of the cylinder, the said film continuing to adhere to such cylin-.

points 24 and the perpendicular IIO here shown is found desirable for carrying intoeffect this invention yet the sheets shown in Fig. 5 may be corrugated or fluted, as therein shown, by any other a proved and convenient apparatus, the sai apparatus forming no part of the present invention.

It is well-known that in the manufacture of hard soap a chilling-cylinder is used, and the film of soap is caused to adhere thereto by rotating the cylinder in a vessel containin liquid soa or by means of a hopper or 0t er similar evice in operative contact with the surface of the said cylinder, whereby a film of'the liquid soap is taken up b the rotating cylinder, and y reason of tii e material from which such 0 linder is formed or a cooling fluid contains therein the said film durin the rotation of the said cylinder is coole tent. The film of soap is removed from the cylinder and dumped upon a conveyer-belt and by the said belt conveyed throu h the heating and drying oven or chamber, w erein the moisture of the soap film is evaporated and the film is discharged from the oven or drier containing but from ten to fifteen per cent. of moisture.

It has been found in practical operation that with the film of soap formed in a plain sheet the said sheets pile one upon another or their plain surfaces come into contact with some surface of the drying apparatus, where by only one side of the film is exposed to the dryin action of the air within the dryingcham er.

With the soap film fluted in accordance with the present invention the stren th is greatly increased in accordance wit the well-known princi 1e, and the said film is supported upon t e ridges of the corrugations, where y nearly t e .entire surface of the film is exposed to the drying action withand hardened to a considerable ex-.

in the drier. In case of one film or sheet being dischar ed 11 on another the said corrugations wil hol the two sheets of films in such relation to each other that the air may freely circulate between the said films and eva orate the aqueous contents.

hat we claim is- 1. The herein-described process consisti in removing from a smooth surface a sheet oi plastic material in the form of a plurality of s t(11'ips corrugated longitudinally upon both s1 es.

2. The herein-described process consisting in removing from a smooth curved surface a sheet of plastic material in the form of a plurality of strips corrugated longitudinally upon both sides.

3. The herein-described rocess consisting in removing from a soap-c illin cylinder a film of plastic soap in the form 0% corrugated strips.

4. The herein-described process consisting in removing from the exterior surface of a soap-chilling cylinder a sheet of plastic soap in the form of strips corrugated longitud1- nally thereof.

5. The herein-described process consisting in removing from the exterior of a soap-chilling cylinder a sheet of plasticsoap by means of a scraper arranged to produce longitudinal corrugations in said strips.

6. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of plastic soap formed into strips and with corrugations extending longitudinally of the stri Ir i testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST A. HOUCHIN. ANTHONY HUBER. Witnesses:

H. G. DISQUE, ARTHUR FALK. 

